Been a while since my last blog. A fair bit has changed, was trying to play at university but internet connection was basically too shoddy and kept disconnecting at important moments, so i made the decision and headed home so i could build my roll and start a nice routine away from the distractions of student debauchery.

Had a terrible february, mtt wise at least. Lost every all in late in in mtts for an astounding amount of tourneys. mostly going deep then losing all in with by far teh best hand or losing about 5 races and 60 40s to die. On thursday in the casino i bubbled losing KQ to 78 then A6 to QJ, i win either of them i probably finish in the top 3. The mtt entry fee's were taking their toll , i must have burnt about £2k in february on tourney entries. so i deposited $2k on crypto and playing NL $100 on their. V easy money, but not easy to grind for a high roller like me, up about 6 buy ins on that, could be alot more, soon as i hit the $4k mark i will return to my favoured level of NL $200.

Sunday mtts i played last night - Crypto 40k gtd, and the mansion 100k and the sunday million.

Got bad beated in the mansion losing KK to QJ then AK to 88.
Sunday million i didnt play that great, i was down to the last 20 in the crypto and had top pair in the million. Couldnt really be bothered making that laydown with a decent kicker so i pushed with top pair after sum1 bet pot he had AA and i was out of the million, which allowed me to focus on the 40k.

I made the final table after getting beated with by QJ to my QQ. Dont want to come off sounding like a cunt, but i was easily the best on the final table. Or i was playing the best at that time. Seemed like a table of people who hadnt reached that stage v often b4 so they were either playing too tight or totally over the top aggression. Got it heads up and he had a 2 - 1 lead on me. This did not worry me at all though, i had been observing closely and i was pretty confident he would make an error of overplaying his hand while i would happily get doubled up and chip away at the pots he didnt get attatched to. Strategy worked perfectly really, i was winning majority of pots taken post flop then i trapped him with AQ, limping it on the button then re raising all in preflop to his raise. He made the mistake of calling with A9 and he flopped the 9 and i came in 2nd. £6.88k or $13.4k in dollars is a good prize, though i do feel a little peeved that i didnt take first place.

Hopefully this marks a beggning of a nice run in mtts, as i didnt do anything different from how id been playing up till that point. I guess my timing was better and i didnt get totally raped for all my chips at any point.

I'm not going to move up stakes at this point though, i left the £1300 in there and will grind away at nl £50 until i reach the 2k mark from cash games and then move up to £100 nl. My aim is to have a roll of £20k by september to start my poker career properly when i move back to notts.

about half way there now